@article{Egziabher:146558,
      recid = {146558},
      author = {Egziabher, Kidanemariam G. and Mathijs, Erik and Deckers,  Jozef A. and Gebrehiwot, Kindeya and Bauer, Hans and  Maertens, Miet},
      title = {The Economic Impact of a New Rural Extension Approach in  Northern Ethiopia},
      address = {2013},
      number = {1067-2016-86816},
      series = {Bioeconomics Working Paper Series},
      pages = {33},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {In this paper we analyze the impact of the Integrated  Household Extension Program (IHEP) in the Tigray region in  northern Ethiopia. The government of Ethiopia – in contrast  to the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa –  invests heavily in agricultural extension but very little  empirical evidence is available on the impact of public  extension services on farm performance and household  welfare that could justify these investments. The IHEP  program is a particularly interesting case as it is an  example for how agricultural extension systems in  developing countries changed during the past two decades,  from centralized top-down technology-transfer-orientated  approaches to decentralized, participatory and more  integrated approaches. We empirically assess the impact of  participation in the IHEP program on household income,  investment and income diversification. We use household  survey data from 730 farm-households in the Tigray region  and propensity score matching methods to estimate the  impact. We find that the extension program had a large  positive impact on household welfare – increasing income  with about 10 percent – and on investment and income  diversification.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/146558},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.146558},
}